‘Calm and Peaceful’
Read the following passages and answer the questions given at the end of each:
On the following Friday, I was pacing the little Malgudi railway station in great agitation. I had never known such suspense before. She was certain to arrive with a lot of luggage, and the little child. How was all this to be transferred from the train to the platform? And the child must not be hurt. I made a mental note, ‘Must shout as soon as the train stops: ‘Be careful with the baby’. “This seemed to my fevered imagination the all-important thing to say on arrival, as otherwise, I fancied the child’s head was sure to be banged against the doorway… And how many infants were damaged and destroyed by careless mothers in the process of coming out of trains! Why couldn’t they make these railway carriages of safer dimensions? It ought to be done in the interests of baby welfare in India. “Mind the baby and the door”. And then the luggage! Susila was sure to bring with her a huge amount of luggage. She required four trunks for her sarees alone! Women never understood the importance of travelling light.
Questions:
1. The narrator was pacing the———– railway station.
(A) Ahmedabad (B) Jhumritalaya
(C) Karnal (D) none of these
2. The author’s wife was in the habit of travelling ——————
(A) with a lot of luggage
(B) without any luggage
(C) with a servant
(D) none of these
3. What did the narrator intend to shout as soon the train stopped?
(A) come here, darling
(B) be careful with the child
(C) wait, I am coming
(D) none of these
4. What does the passage say about the sarees of the narrator’s wife?
(A) she had only two sarees
(B) she had four sarees
(C) she had a number of sarees
(D) none of these
5. What is the meaning of banging?
(A) sang
(B) struck
(C) picked up
(D) none of these
6. Select the word opposite to ‘calm and peaceful’ in the passage.
(A) agitation
(B) suspense
(C) careless
(D) destroyed
Answers:-
1.(D) none of these
2. (A) with a lot of luggage
3. (B) be careful with the child
4. (C) she had a number of sarees
5. (B) struck
6. (A) agitation
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